Sony Pictures Entertainment
Job Applicant Privacy Policy

This Sony Pictures Entertainment Job Applicant Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes theprivacy practices of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation)
and/or certain of its affiliates and business divisions (collectively, “SPE,” “we,” “our,” or “us”), as
the controller of Personal Information collected as part of the job application process. This Privacy
Policy provides you with information about how we collect, use, process, disclose, and transfer
certain Personal Information about you on this site and otherwise during your job application
process (the “Site”). This Privacy Policy applies only to the Site on which there is a direct link tothis Privacy Policy.
As used in this Privacy Policy, the term “Personal Information” means information that identifies,
relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably belinked, directly or indirectly, with you.
If you are a California Job Applicant, please click here.
SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS•PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT - We collect Personal Information to allow
you to learn about jobs with SPE, to seek a job with SPE, to allow SPE to process yourjob application, and, in some cases, to hire you. Click here to learn more.

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DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION - We disclose your Personal
Information when you request or agree to such sharing with third parties, when we engage
other parties to process data on our behalf, when such sharing is required by law, or incertain other situations. Click here to learn more.

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DATA TRANSFERS - This Site is hosted on web servers in the United States, a jurisdictionthat may not provide the same level of data protection as your home country. We takeappropriate measures to enable the secure transfer of your Personal Information,
including the use of data transfer agreements where applicable. Click here to learn more.

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COOKIES AND SIMILAR TRACKING TECHNOLOGY - We use cookies and othertechnologies to track the use of our Site. To learn more about the use of such cookies andtechnologies and about opportunities to choose not to allow cookies, click here.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We may collect the Personal Information listed below, which you provide to us or grant us access
to, where permitted or required by law or as may be necessary or permitted for a role, when you
register on the Site, apply for a job, or otherwise communicate with us via this Site, in person, via
email, or during online meetings with our representatives. Some of the Personal Information wecollect may be considered Sensitive Personal Information or Special Categories of Data underapplicable law. In addition, if you have previously worked at SPE or applied for another position,certain Personal Information about you may also be combined with or evaluated in conjunction
with this Personal Information.
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Identifiers, including real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online
identifier, IP address, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers. The
Identifiers we collect also include social security number, driver’s license, state
identification card or passport number; as well as account log-in, financial account, debit
card, or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code,
password, or credentials allowing access to an account.
Personal records, including your name, signature, social security number, address,
telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number,
education, employment, employment history. This category includes the information
described in Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e), some of which is duplicative of the other
Personal Information listed here.
Characteristics of protected classifications, including age and date of birth, race,
ancestry, ethnic origin, nationality, country of birth, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual
orientation, medical condition, disability, and military or veteran status. This category
includes Personal Information that reveals racial or ethnic origin and union membership;
as well as Personal Information concerning sexual orientation; and information concerning
health.
Internet or other electronic network activity information, including browsing history,
search history, and information regarding your interactions with our websites, applications,or advertisements.
Geolocation information inferred from your IP address and collected with yourpermission.
Audiovisual information, including closed-circuit images and other information collected
about you should you come onto an SPE property; audio and video information collected
through phone and video interviews.
Professional or employment-related information, including skills, qualifications, work
experience, languages spoken, honors and awards, references, recommendations, andother information included in a resume, CV, application form, or cover letter; salary
information; performance data; answers to behavioral or other screening questions in an
application or interview; information contained in any personal webpages, social media
sites, or documents you choose to share with us; information relating to professional
licenses, training, disciplinary actions, and membership in professional organizations;information relating to membership in civic organizations.
Inferences used to create a profile reflecting your preferences, characteristics,
psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, andaptitudes.

We may also request information concerning your criminal and motor vehicle operations history(where permitted by and in accordance with local law).
You are not required to provide all Personal Information identified in this Privacy Policy to use theSite or to interact with us, but if you do not provide certain Personal Information, we may not beable to administer your recruitment or make a hiring decision.

SOURCES FROM WHICH WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION
Generally, we collect the categories of Personal Information described above from the following
categories of sources:
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Directly from you.
Automatically when you use the Site or our other electronic systems.
Created by us (e.g., if we create records pertaining to you to facilitate the application
process or assess your application).
From service providers that help us to run our business (such as those that host or support
the Site, provide analytic or data storage services, or otherwise perform functions on ourbehalf as part of the job application process).
From third parties, which may include background check vendors and individuals who
serve as references for you, among others.
Government records.

PURPOSE AND LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may use your Personal Information for the legitimate business purposes outlined below,
including to:
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Identify or evaluate candidates for positions.
Make a decision about whether the individual should be offered a position.
Maintain appropriate record-keeping; analyze the hiring process and outcomes.
Conduct employment verification and background investigations where permitted by law.
Establish your credentials in the Site.
Deliver appropriate regional website content.
Verify your access rights.
Respond to your inquiries.
Engage in other business activities and comply with other applicable policies.
Process your registration.
Provide you with information that you request or agree to receive.
Improve the Site and for internal business purposes.
Contact you with regard to your use of the Site and any changes to our policies.
Tailor content.
To comply with our rights and obligations under collective bargaining agreements.
Protect the rights and property of SPE or the public as required or permitted by law andfulfill other purposes disclosed at the time you provide your Personal Information orotherwise with your consent.

We may use your Sensitive Personal Information for the purposes of complying with government
reporting requirements and other legal obligations, tracking diversity, and determining reasonableaccommodations for a candidate. Health information, such as temperature, may be collected forrisk management purposes only and for taking measures to protect our workforce and facilities
during the COVID-19 pandemic.
If you are from the European Economic Area or in the United Kingdom, our legal basis forcollecting and using your Personal Information described above falls into the following categories
and will depend on the Personal Information concerned as well as the specific context in which
we process it.
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TO FULFIL A CONTRACT, OR TAKE STEPS LINKED TO A CONTRACTo To process your application or employment contract.
o To send you information about changes to our terms or policies and othertransactional messages.
WHERE NECESSARY FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE IN OUR, OR THIRD PARTIES’,LEGITIMATE INTERESTS. THESE INTERESTS ARE:o To assess your suitability for a role at SPE.
o To provide you with access to content, including open positions and job
requirements.
o To send you information you have requested.
o To ensure the security of our sites and apps, by trying to prevent unauthorized or
malicious activities.
o To enforce compliance with the Terms of Use posted in association with thisPrivacy Policy and other policies.
o To determine your approximate location and adapt our content (e.g. language,
currency, territory restrictions).
o To analyze how our site or content is used (including frequency and length ofviewings).
o To improve our services, including analyzing your feedback and comments
provided via a survey or event feedback.
o To provide you with customer support.
WHERE YOU GIVE US CONSENTo Where you ask us to send information related to our open roles with you via a
medium where we need your consent under applicable law.
o Where required by applicable law, consent to place cookies and to use similar
technologies. For more information please also see the section on Cookies.
o On other occasions where we ask you for consent, for a purpose which we explainat that time.
WHERE THIS IS NECESSARY FOR US TO COMPLY WITH OUR LEGALOBLIGATIONSo In response to requests by government, regulators, judicial or law enforcement
authorities conducting an investigation.
o To comply with health and safety, tax or accounting rules or other legal obligation
under applicable law.

If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which wecollect and use your Personal Information, please contact us using the contact details provided
below.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may share your Personal Information with the following categories of recipients:
Service Providers
We may engage service providers and contractors to perform functions on our behalf, such as
hosting or operating our Site, sending e-mail communications, and data analysis. Generally, we
disclose Personal Information with our service providers and contractors as follows:
Category of Personal Information

Purposes for Disclosure
To communicate with you
To open and maintain your application records

Identifiers
Personal records
Professional or employment-related
information

To assess your eligibility for employment
To market and advertise job opportunities with us
To comply with applicable laws and regulations
To manage corporate information technology
To manage the security of SPE premises, systems, and websites
To comply with applicable laws and regulations
To manage our corporate diversity and inclusion initiatives

Characteristics of protected classifications To comply with our rights and obligations under collective
bargaining agreements

To facilitate your use of our website
To provide you with tailored recommendations, and updates
Internet or other electronic network
activity information

To improve our website, set default options, and provide you with abetter application experience

Geolocation data

To market and advertise job opportunities with us
To manage corporate information technology
To manage the security of SPE premises, systems, and websites
To facilitate the interview process

Audiovisual information
To manage the security of SPE premises, systems, and websites
To assess your eligibility for employment
Inferences

To market and advertise job opportunities with us
To manage the security of our premises and systems

Social security, driver’s license, state
identification card, or passport number

To comply with applicable laws and regulations

Account log-in, financial account, debit

To manage the security of SPE premises, systems, and websites

card, or credit card number in
combination with any required security oraccess code, password, or credentials
allowing access to an accountTo comply with applicable laws and regulations
Personal Information that reveals racial or To manage our corporate diversity and inclusion initiatives
ethnic origin, or union membership
To comply with our rights and obligations under collective
bargaining agreements
Personal Information concerning sexual
orientation

To comply with applicable laws and regulations
To manage our corporate diversity and inclusion initiatives

Affiliate Sharing and Business Transfers
We may share your Personal Information with other entities affiliated with us for operational
purposes or marketing in connection with other open roles as permitted under applicable law.
SPE or any of its assets, including the Site, may be sold, or other transactions may occur in whichyour Personal Information is considered one of the business assets of the transaction. In suchcases, your Personal Information may be transferred to third parties in the context of thesetransactions.
Regulatory and/or Law Enforcement Agencies
We may also transfer and disclose any category of Personal Information we collect to third parties
such as to local labor authorities, courts and tribunals, regulatory bodies and/or law enforcement
agencies to comply with a legal obligation; when we believe in good faith that the law requires it;at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation; to verify or enforce theSite’s Terms of Use or other applicable policies; to respond to an emergency; or otherwise toprotect the rights, property, safety, or security of SPE, third parties, visitors to this Site or the
public. Pursuant to valid requests by law enforcement agencies, we may also use Device
Identifiers to identify users, and may do so in cooperation with copyright owners, Internet service
providers, wireless service providers or law enforcement agencies, in our discretion. Suchdisclosures may be carried out without additional notice to you.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERThe Site is hosted and operated in the United States. It will therefore be necessary to transfer andprocess your Personal Information in the United States, where the privacy laws may not provide
an equivalent level of protection to those in your home country.
In addition, some of the recipients of your Personal Information identified in this Privacy Policy
may be located outside of your home country, which may have different rules for processing andsecuring Personal Information. We take appropriate measures to enable the secure transfer ofyour Personal Information, including the use of data transfer agreements where applicable. With
respect to transfers originating from a country or a region such as the United Kingdom or theEuropean Economic Area ("EEA"), and if the transfer is not to a country which is the subject ofan adequacy decision or adequacy regulation (or equivalent), we implement appropriate solutions
to address cross-border transfers as required by applicable law such as, with relation to the EEA,
standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission; and with the UK, standard
contractual clauses approved by the UK government. Under such laws, you may request a copyof the suitable mechanisms we have in place by contacting us as detailed here. Where yourconsent is required by applicable law for the international transfer of Personal Information, byusing our websites or apps or otherwise by engaging with us, and providing us with your Personal
Information, you consent to the international transfer of your Personal Information. Further,access to your Personal Information is designed to be restricted to those individuals who have aneed to know in order to fulfill their job responsibilities.

DATA RETENTIONYour Personal Information is stored by SPE to the extent necessary for the performance of ourobligations and for the time necessary to achieve the purposes for which the data are collected,
in accordance with applicable data privacy laws and our Records Retention Schedules. This
generally means holding the information for as long as one of the following apply:
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Your Personal Information is reasonably necessary to manage our operations, to manage
your relationship with us, or to satisfy another purpose for which we collected theinformation;
Your Personal Information is reasonably necessary to carry out a disclosed purpose thatis reasonably compatible with the context in which the Personal Information wascollected;
The Personal Information is reasonably necessary to protect or defend our rights orproperty (which will generally relate to applicable laws that limit actions in a particularcase); orWe are otherwise required or permitted to keep your information by applicable laws or
regulations.

Where information is used for more than one purpose, we will retain it until the purpose with thelatest period expires. For more information about our retention policies, please contact us using
the contact details below.

SECURITY
SPE maintains reasonable technical and organizational security measures as prescribed byapplicable law that are designed to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access,use, misuse, modification, disclosure and destruction. Nevertheless, transmission via the internet
and online digital storage are not completely secure and SPE cannot guarantee the security ofyour information collected online.

YOUR RIGHTS
In some jurisdictions, data protection laws provide individuals with certain rights to their Personal
Information, including the right to access, correct, and delete their Personal Information. You may
exercise such privacy rights as applicable to you in the jurisdiction you reside by contacting us asdetailed below. Please note that we will retain certain Personal Information as required or
permitted by applicable law. You can also opt out of receiving (or withdraw your consent toreceive) recruitment communications about other opportunities by contacting us as detailed here.

CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
If you are a California job applicant, please read this section for more information about yourprivacy rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). If you interact with us as aconsumer, you can find our California Consumer Privacy Notice here.
To submit a request relating to your Personal Information, please use our webform here or call
us at 1-310-244-7062 between 9:00am – 6:00pm PST. Please note that if you submit a request,
you will be asked to log into your account or to provide 2-3 pieces of Personal Information that wewill match against our records to verify your identity. You may designate an authorized agent tomake a request on your behalf; however, you will still need to verify your identity directly with us
before your request can be processed. An authorized agent may submit a request on your behalf
using the webform or toll-free number listed above.
Right to Correct. If you believe that Personal Information we maintain about you is inaccurate,
you have the right to request that we correct that information.
Right to Delete. You have the right to request that we delete Personal Information we collectedfrom you, subject to certain exceptions. Where we use deidentification to satisfy a deletion
request, we commit to maintaining and using the information in deidentified form and will not
attempt to reidentify the information.
Right to Know. You have the right to know what Personal Information we have collected about
you, which includes:(1) The categories of Personal Information we have collected about you, includinga. The categories of sources from which the Personal Information was collectedb. Our business or commercial purposes for collecting or disclosing Personal
Informationc. The categories of recipients to which we disclose Personal Informationd. The categories of Personal Information that we disclosed for a businesspurpose, and for each category identified, the categories of recipients to which
we disclosed that particular category of Personal Information(2) The specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about youRight to Opt Out of Sales and Sharing of Personal Information. We do not sell or share forcross-context behavioral advertising the Personal Information we collect pursuant to yourapplication for employment with us. If you interact with SPE as a consumer, please review our
California Consumer Privacy Notice for more information about our practices in that context.
Right to Limit the Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information. Our use of Sensitive
Personal Information is limited to exempt purposes under CCPA, and is therefore not subject tothe right to limit use and disclosure under the law.
Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of Your Privacy Rights. If you choose to
exercise any of your privacy rights under the CCPA, you also have the right not to receive
discriminatory treatment by us.

COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIESSPE and/or third-party service providers may use a variety of technologies that collect information
about how the Site is accessed and used (“Usage Information”). Usage Information may consist,in part, of your browser type, operating system, the page served, the time, and the preceding
page views. Usage Information is generally non-identifying, but if it is associated with otherinformation so that you can be identified, it will be treated as Personal Information.
SPE and/or third-party service providers also collect your IP address or other unique identifier(“Device Identifier”) for the computer, mobile device, technology or other device (collectively,“Device”) you use to access the Site. Some mobile service providers may also provide us withthe physical location of the Device used to access the Site with your permission. While certain of
the information described above may be considered non-identifying, if it is associated with otherinformation so that you can be identified, it will be treated as Personal Information.
We use cookies and other technologies on the Site to collect Usage Information, including Device
Identifiers. We also use session cookies to help ensure proper functioning of the site and forsimilar purposes. You may configure your Internet browser to notify you when a cookie is sent
(giving you the option to decide whether to accept it or not), and to reject or remove cookies.
Certain features of the Site may not be available, however, if cookies are disabled. If you delete
your cookies, use a different browser, or use a different computer, you will need to renew yourchoices.
To find out more about cookies used for personalized ads in the US and Canada, including the
choices you may have, please visit the Digital Advertising Alliance-US, Network Advertising
Initiative, Digital Advertising Alliance-Canada, and European Interactive Digital Advertising
Alliance. For UK visitors, please see our UK Cookie Policy for more information.
Please visit the respective privacy policies and/or review the privacy settings of the social
networking services you use to make choices about online advertising on those services. While
we and others give you choices described in this Privacy Policy, there are many ways Web
browser signals and other similar mechanisms can indicate your choice to disable tracking, andwe may not be aware of or honor every mechanism.

We use Hotjar, a service provider, to help us understand and analyze how visitors use ourservices, and to improve the services. Hotjar may collect the following types of information fromusers of our websites:
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Device IP Address
Device screen size
Device type (unique device identifiers)
Browser information, geographic location (country only)
Preferred language used to display our website

Hotjar represents that it stores the above information in a pseudonymized format. Hotjar further
represents that it does not use this information to identify individual users, or match or link theinformation with other information about users. For more information regarding Hotjar's collection
and use of information, please visit Hotjar's privacy policy here.
Our Site uses Google Analytics to help us understand and analyze how visitors use our Site. For
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visit
www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. To opt out of Google Analytics cookies, visit
tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
Your web browser may provide you with a Do Not Track option that signals a user does not wish
to have activity tracked. However, currently there is no universal standard for how to interpret thatsignal. We currently do not alter our practices when we receive a Do Not Track signal from auser’s browser.

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY
Except where prior notice or consent is required by law, SPE reserves the right to update or
modify this Privacy Policy at any time and without prior notice by posting the revised version of
the Privacy Policy on the Site. Please check the Privacy Policy frequently and particularly before
you submit additional information via the Site. Your continued use of the Site will constitute yourconsent to any such changes in the Privacy Policy except where otherwise prohibited byapplicable law.

CONTACT US
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the use of the Site or this Privacy Policy,
please contact us by sending an email to spe_careers@spe.sony.com or by writing to us at:
ATTN: People & Organization SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT INC. 10202 W. Washington
Blvd., Suite 3900 Culver City, CA 90232.
You may also contact us by email at:
European Union: SPE_EU_Privacy_Contact@spe.sony.com

Brazil: Privacidade Brasil@spe.sony.com
U.S. and other countries: SPE_Privacy@spe.sony.com
You may also contact SPE's Data Privacy Officer at SPE_Privacy@spe.sony.com or contact
your local data protection authorities with any questions.
Effective Date: January 1, 2023
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